MAISA Units

FOCUS OF RESEARCH: Social Trends

STUDENT OUTCOMES:

The 9th grade unit focuses on text features and structures in informational texts that lead students to the informational writing unit that follows.

KEY CONCEPTS:

author's intent, bias, inference, nonfiction, premise, purpose, text features, text structures, summary, paraphrasing

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

How can identifying text structures help in reading nonfiction text?

How do the text features of nonfiction texts help the reader to understand the author's purpose?

How do good readers draw inferences from nonfiction texts?

• 9th Grade Informational Reading

• 9th Grade Informational Essay

Teacher Lessons

Allison & Amy: High School Workshop

Elizabeth Gates: Reading/Writing Connection

• PATTERNS & STRUCTURES OF TEXT

  • Apple Paragraphs
  • Apple Paragraphs with Answers
  • Signal Words
  
  

• Amy's Rubric and Assessment